EPHPMVC

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h1. EPHPMVC: A small but extendable MVC implementation for PHP 5.3

h2. Design Goals

h3. General

• Component should scale: from small web app to huge complex web projects
• Configuration over convention but sensible defaults
• Should be extendible with classic OOP measures: e.g. @Composites@ (GOF 163) could be used for complex views and complex routes
• Constructor based dependency injection for all the classes
• No singletons, no registries, multiple @Front Controllers@ (P of EAA 344) should live easily together
• Basic structure fully defined in interfaces
• Clear separation of packages ** @EPHPMVC\Standard@ is where the most simple example implementations live ** HTTP protocol specific implementations live in @EPHPMVC\HTTP@

h3. Dispatching/Routing

• Protocol agnostic: should be usable for Web, Mail processing, CLI utilities

h3. View

• Use closures as view helpers
• View helpers are conceptually the same as template variables
• Use PHP as the default template engine (no Smarty, no nothing)

h2. Ideas

• Implement an A/B split testing route
• Implement a CLI request/response/route triangle
• Implement XML processing request/response/route triangle. Routing expressions specified as XPath Queries
• Implement router to use @Page Controller@ (P of EAA 333) pattern